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The number of marriages where women earn more than men is on the rise according to the Pew Research Center due to the recession and educational opportunities available to women.
Alison Kilkenny at True/Slant documents recent cases of domestic terrorism that have been ignored by media outlets in their search for more sensational stories.
New York psychotherapist Charley Wininger recalls that "hippidom (at its best) was an alternative to this dillusional pathology of separation that has been forced upon us."
The argument that "we take the internet for granted" may seem like a tired straw man. But perhaps the ideology of the internet could stand a second look. Maybe we […]
Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, is no stranger to controversy. He has made a career out of "telling it like he sees it" when […]
The results from yesterday's "Little Tuesday" collection of primaries and special elections around the country are in. They were bad news for many established political figures. But they may nevertheless […]
There's hardly a feat of industrial design more emblematic of consumerism than the vending machine. But while vending machines may perpetuate a number of social ills – from conspiculous consumption […]
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Digital technology has solved the problems of visualization and building. Going forward, great architects will "deal with the exceptionality of the synthetic moment in inventive ways."
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Engineers progress in their work by testing things so that they fail.
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Ultimately architecture is unique. Each building sits in a site in a certain moment in a very different way.
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"Green" architecture is a kind of "soup du jour" at many firms, but the push to create sustainable buildings is an important movement.
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Composite materials have had a vast impact on the way that we think about structural skins.
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The social nature of technology instigates a relationship between images and words, and allows many more people to be involved in the drawing platform.
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Design education can either embrace the world in all its complexity or concentrate on singular elements in depth.
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A conversation with the M.I.T. Architecture professor and Office dA principal.
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In his work with the government, the professor helps to suss out the underlying motives of our allies and enemies.
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As in real estate, the name of the game in our choice of spouse is "location, location, location."
2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Boston Women's Health Collective, also known as "Our Bodies, Ourselves." Executive Director Judy Norsigian sat down with Big Think to talk about the […]
On the heels of the untimely passing of heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio, it’s worth analyzing the social and political force of Dio and his hard-rocking brethren. Dio’s work […]
Despite colloquial wisdom that social networking sites deprive teenagers of contact with the real world, new research shows that users are quite well adjusted.